Jamie Lober, Next U.S. Senator from Florida, to Speak for National Cancer Awareness Day
Loyal, genuine, youthful and influential are just a few words to describe Jamie Lober. “She has a big mind and an even bigger heart,” said Bill Matson, 64, New Jersey, who heard her address the cancer epidemic at a breakfast earlier this year. “What was unique about her when she ran for mayor was that her message, style and disposition was the same no matter who she was talking to; what you see is what you get and everyone liked her for that because she was honest,” said Mark Fowler, 30, who knew of Lober through her college years. “I did not have a personal relationship with her but my dog attended incredible events she planned for the Humane Society and I know she led women’s health and sexual health education initiatives on campus,” Fowler continued. When Charles Worm, 37, Oregon who follows Lober’s advice in his local parenting publication was asked where he envisions Lober in years to come he replied “as the first female president.” Perhaps there is truth in jest.
Lober departs for the Capitol next week to speak for national cancer awareness day. “This is something that I have to do and I look forward to the evening that my father can be in the audience,” said Lober. She said that her priority is to heighten rare disease awareness, advocate for legislation and funding benefitting patients with cancer, promote research and personalize the cause so people understand why she is there. Unprompted, Lober chimes in with a wake-up call to who she calls nicotine addicts. “Tobacco companies need to start providing truthful information about their products to consumers including that smoking takes more lives each year than AIDS, drugs, car crashes, murder, suicide and alcohol combined,” said Lober. As a nonsmoker, she goes on to critique those who opt to light up. “I want people to stop polluting my air and to get over the fad of electronic cigarettes because the truth is that there is no safe cigarette,” said Lober. Lober tells that her best speeches are off-the-cuff and unplanned but that her main talking point of the night will be that she wants everyone to come together and make the fight to defeat cancer a national priority.